TY - BOOK AU - Domínguez, Jorge I. \ Lowenthal, Abraham F. TI - Constructing democratic governance: Mexico, America central and the Caribbean in the 1990's SN - 0801854040 AV - JL 966 C758m 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - Baltimore PB - John Hopkins University Press N2 - Introduction : Constructing democratic governance, 3. -- Nicaragua : Politics, poverty, and polarization, 3. -- El Salvador : transition from civil war, 26. -- Guatemala : democratic governability, 50. -- Honduras : democratization and the role of the Armed Forces, 64. -- Costa Rica : new issues and alignments, 78. -- Panama : transactional democracy, 92. -- Caribbean democracy : decay or renewal?, 104. -- The Dominican Republic : an ambiguous democracy, 118. -- Haiti : four old and te new hypotheses, 135. -- Mexico : the decline of dominant - party rule, 159. -- Cuba : propects for democracy, 185. -- Conclusion : Parties, institutions, and market reforms in constructing democracies, 3 ER -